382 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Txora. 
Trunk erect, Branches opposite, spreading much, but they 
’ are not so numerous as in I, parviflora, Bark brown, and 
pretty smooth. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolar, ob- 
tuse, smooth, of a hatd texture, from four to six inches: long, 
by less than two broad. Stipules triangular, acute. Panicles — 
terminal, brachiate ; ramifications few, remote on long, round, 
smooth peduncles. Flowers numerous, minute, much small- 
er than in I. parviflora. Calyx small, deeply four-toothed, 
coloured. Corol with a filiform tube; segments of the border 
obovate, emarginate. Filaments none. Anihers linear, at- 
tached by their backs to the bottom of the fissures of the bor- 
der of the corol. Germ turbinate, two-celled, with one seed 
in each, attached to the partition, Style scarcely longer than 
the tube. Stigma large, two-lobed. Berry the sizeof a large 
pea, smooth, succulent, dark brown purple, two-celled. Seeds 
solitary, round, convex, on the outside concave, with a pit on 
the inner. Integuments two, exterior white, hard, thin, and 
elastic; inner tender and thin. Perisperm ‘acetabuliform, 
amyedaline, Embryo erect, curved. Cotyledons cordate. 
Radicle cylindric, curved, inferior. ip 
Obs. A handsome shrub, and nearly allied to Vahis I. 
pervrfiora, though very different from the plant so labelled _ 
in the Banksian herbarium, white bores in abundanessin 
this garden, scieein cunt 
- Ist. In the shape of the real which i in that species are 
sub.sessile, and generally have a broad stem-clasping base; 
in this the petiole is about half an inch long, and the leaves 
taper more towards the base than at the exterior end. ~ 
2d. In the thinness of the panicle, (though of the same con- 
formation), and the size of the flowers, which in this species 
are much smaller, and every way more delicate, and also in 
their shape, which in that — is oblong before _! 
sion, but in this round, : aren 
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